Bengt

Bengt may refer to:

People

  • Bengt Åberg (born 1944), Swedish motocross racer
  • Bengt-Åke Gustafsson (born 1958), Swedish ice hockey player
  • Bengt-Åke Lundvall (born 1941), professor at the Department of Business Studies at Aalborg University in Denmark
  • Bengt Åkerblom (1967–1995), Swedish ice hockey player
  • Bengt Anders Euphrasén (1755 or 1756–1796), Swedish botanists and zoologist
  • Bengt-Anders Johansson (born 1951), Swedish politician of the Moderate Party
  • Bengt Andersson (disambiguation)
  • Bengt Andersson Qvist (1729–1799), Swedish chemist and mineralogist
  • Bengt Backlund (1926–2006), Swedish flatwater canoer
  • Bengt Baron (born 1962), Swedish former backstroke swimmer
  • Bengt Bengtsson (1897–1977), Swedish gymnast
  • Bengt Berg (ornithologist) (1885–1967), Swedish ornithologist, zoologist, wildlife photographer and writer
  • Bengt Berg (footballer), Swedish former footballer
  • Bengt Berger (born 1942), Swedish jazz drummer, composer and producer
  • Bengt Berndtsson (born 1933), Swedish football player
  • Bengt Börjesson (1920–1977), Swedish politician
  • 1846 Bengt

    1846 Bengt, provisional designation 6553 P–L, is an asteroid from the main-belt discovered on September 24, 1960 by Cornelis van Houten, Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld and Tom Gehrels, who took the photographic plates at Palomar Observatory. The asteroid measures about 11 kilometers in diameter and orbits the Sun at a distance of 2.0–2.7 AU once every 3.6 years.

    It was named after renowned Danish astronomer Bengt Strömgren (1908–1987), on the occasion of his 70th birthday. He was an authority in the field of stellar structure and stellar evolution, director of the Yerkes Observatory from 1951 to 1957, and president of the International Astronomical Union (1970–1973).

    The designation P–L stands for Palomar–Leiden, named after Palomar Observatory and Leiden Observatory, which collaborated on the fruitful Palomar–Leiden survey in the 1960s. Gehrels used Palomar's Samuel Oschin telescope (also known as the 48-inch Schmidt Telescope), and shipped the photographic plates to Cornelis Johannes van Houten and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld at Leiden Observatory. The trio are credited with several thousand asteroid discoveries.

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    High school roundup: Bengt Luckey tosses mound gem for Moline

    Quad-City Times 10 Apr 2025
    Bengt Luckey's shutout on the mound for Moline topped a busy night of high school action across the QCA ... .
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